NEWSLETTER

LATEST NEWS

Don't miss Sietske in her new Videoclip of "Chasing Rainbows":

EVENTS & CONCERTS

EVENSANNE

WHAT IF YOU LISTEN TO THE NEW CD, PUBLISHED BY BERTHOLD RECORDS IN MAY 2017 AND RELISH THE CONTROLLED EXUBERANCE

Intro

Releases

Sanne Huibregts

Vocals & Glockenspiel

Eran Har Even

Guitar

Itai Weissmann

EWI

Jeroen Batterink

Drums

What if – one musician gets a call from
another to do a background gig in an Italian restaurant. There is musical
chemistry. “It was a magical evening,” says Eran Har Even, the Israeli born
guitarist who had invited Sanne Huijbregts, the Dutch singer, to appear with
him that day. Four years on, “EvenSanne” have brought out their third CD – What
If. “The super strong connection” as Sanne puts it, has produced a
remarkable and highly original new album. Sanne’s impeccable diction and pitch
is a perfect foil to Eran’s precise, yet richly expressive playing. They are
joined by Itai Weissman on EWI – the unusual electrical wind instrument, and
Jeroen Batterink on drums.

“We both come from a Jazz tradition,”
explains Eran, “but we don’t want to be tagged. We use a lot of external vocal
and instrumental effects, for example a loop station, octavers, and delays.
With these elements we can make our duo and now our quartet sound much
different than a more conventional line up.” Sanne develops this idea, “The
EWI, the drums, the loop station, the Glockenspiel, all the other instruments,
no bass; the way we play, present – with visuals, communicate and compose; by
now we have a clear band sound. Our songs are quite recognisable.”

Their
previous CD Something So Sweet and the EP Still both published in
2014, won critical acclaim. “Haunting melodies and refreshing harmony, woven
through beautifully crafted compositions,” wrote Becca Stevens, the American
Folk-Jazz musician. Gilad Hekselman, the Israeli Jazz guitarist and composer
described EvenSanne as, “..unique and magical.. able to make so much harmonic
and sonic richness and with a truly creative and out-of-the-box approach.”

WHAT IF (2017)

The tracks
on What If were all written by Sanne Huijbregts and Eran Har Even; a
“duo creation” as they put it. Just before coming together for the album, Sanne
studied in Copenhagen and Berlin. Eran taught for three months in India. “We
both,” explains Sanne, “had the chance to develop ourselves in our different
ways, then we came back fresh and new. We took what we had before, the acoustic
duo and we developed it into this harmonic, lyrical, storytelling, dynamic
quartet – with sometimes a rock band feel. The first song of the album Act
Normal has everything in it. It has all the sounds that we use. There is
improvisation in there. The lyrics are a story. If you read the lyrics in the
album as a whole from beginning to end, it’s one big storyline.”

The lyrics
add depth to the music. I’m Nobody for example is complex, subtle and
surprising in its musical composition, based on an idea: as Eran explains,
“It’s a song that talks about coming to a new place where nobody knows you. You
can develop an alter-ego, which is not really you. You can be an arrogant freak
or a most kind person. You can be somebody else.” Clockwork is poetic in
both its music and lyrics. According to Sanne, “Clockwork lyrically
tries to present coincidence. It’s such a coincidence that you’ve found each
other in this world.” Adding to the sense of storyline, three intermediary
songs go by the name of in, ter and lude; each an
atmospheric breathing space.

Maybe the interludes are much needed. “We are cat
and dog,” says Sanne. “We fight for the space on the nice pillow, because we both
have strong opinions. We’re stubborn. Then again we’re always friends.” In this
new album and in live concert you can sense a unity built on depth of emotion.
EvenSanne have dazzled audiences, amongst others at the Bimhuis, Jazzfest,
InJazz, So What’s Next, Grachtenfestival, JazzDag, Toonzaal, on Radio 6 – the
Dutch Jazz radio station, have toured Israel and won both an Incentive and a
Records Prize at the Keep An Eye Jazz Awards.